Title: "Fireworks Family": Only with love can you have a family
The TV series "Fireworks Family" revolves around the problems and confusions faced by three generations of women in the Meng family in family, career, marriage and love, and tells a warm story of their mutual support and individual growth. , reflecting the intergenerational communication in urban families and the rich spiritual world of contemporary women, arousing widespread resonance among the audience.
The play begins with an uneven New Year's Eve dinner, showing the undercurrents of various emotions in a family: sisters of the same generation are competing with each other, the mother is disgusted with her daughter, and the middle-aged couple are at odds with each other. The "Discord" drama uses the different modes of getting along with each other in three families composed of the three Meng sisters to display a variety of family problems and trigger the audience's reflection and discussion on their own family relationships. "Fireworks" is particularly precise in its description of the relationship between mother and daughter: Meng Mingwei, the eldest son of the Meng family, interfered too much in her daughter's life, causing her daughter Li Yijin to want to escape from her control. After many twists and turns, the mother and daughter finally opened up and opened their hearts. This process provides the audience with a solution to the problem of intergenerational communication barriers; the second eldest son of the Meng family, Meng Wanqing, and her daughter Tao Shuna talk about everything and trust each other, showing an ideal state of getting along with modern mothers and daughters, which makes many People have found the reference coordinates for a proper grasp of the parent-child relationship. The different communication methods of the two pairs of mothers and daughters lead to the two daughters holding different emotional attitudes and concepts of marriage and love, which reflects the profound impact of the appearance of the original family on individual psychology.
With the further development of plot development and character creation, "Fireworks" revolves around family relationships such as mother and daughter, sisters, grandparents and grandchildren, and husband and wife, and lays out social issues in multiple dimensions. How people face a marital crisis in middle age, how to support the elderly, how to balance work and family, how to get along with colleagues in the workplace, and how to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace, these contents are all covered and explored in the play. For these practical issues that have attracted much attention in life, the creators did not try to give direct answers, but used the plot to create a public opinion field, allowing the audience to discuss various possibilities based on their own actual situations, thereby stimulating rational thinking and gaining The drive to move forward.
In addition, "Fireworks" truly reproduces the process from the occurrence to resolution of various conflicts, and skillfully connects the difficulties encountered by the characters outside the family with the emotional strength gained within the family, showing the tolerance and fulfillment among family members. , conveying the warm power of helping each other. For example, Meng Mingwei bravely divorced her cowardly and chauvinistic husband with the support of her whole family; Meng Wanqing fought cancer with her daughter by her side; the three sisters of the Meng family experienced the storm together with their mother and always stood firm In the process of solving problems with their families, the characters in the play learn to empathize with each other, think from others' perspective, and gain the courage to face difficulties in life, conveying to the audience the true meaning of love and family. As the ending song expresses, everyone is an isolated island. It is precisely because of love that people become an archipelago of mutual help, able to jointly withstand the stormy waves of life.
Of course, the show still has room for improvement in terms of character creation and plot telling. But its flaws do not hide its merits. Overall, "Fireworks" provides the audience with a perspective on the smallest unit of society, the family, paying attention to the life status and emotional needs of women of different ages, healing people's hearts with warm family affection, and completing the upward journey with a realist spirit. The theme of kindness is conveyed, which further expands the creation of family ethics dramas. (Author: Luo Wenmin, professor at Shantou University School of Liberal Arts)
"Guangming Daily" (Page 15, March 27, 2024)
